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Friday, 26 June 2015

Just a reminder that for people in and around Victoria, you are all invited to attend the book launch for three authors on Saturday June 27 at 3pm in Britannia Branch of the RC Legion at 780 Summit Ave. There's parking and good bus access. See you there!

-Dave Duncan will be launching his 50th fantasy novel, The Eye of Strife. If you are one of the many fans of his Omar books or his Apprentice series, you'll appreciate the review at this link.
As well, Dave is announcing the release of the omnibus edition of his historical fantasy trilogy The Adventures of Ivor, which you can read about at this link.

-Nowick Gray will be launching his mystery novel set in 1960s Ungava in Canada' North, Hunter's Daughter. He was interviewed here in a podcast: http://www.fiveriverspublishing.com/2015/04/michell-plested-interviews-nowick-gray.html
The novel has already had an excellent review: http://www.fiveriverspublishing.com/2015/06/5-stars-for-hunters-daughter-at.html

-Paula Johanson will be launching her 30th nonfiction book, King Kwong: Larry Kwong, the China Clipper who broke the NHL colour barrier. The publisher has a cheery article about this book on their website.
As well, Paula is launching the new edition of her fantasy novel Tower in the Crooked Wood, a newly-expanded edition from Five Rivers Publishing. There's another cheery article at this link.

Saturday, 6 June 2015

Dave Duncan
and Nowick Gray and Paula Johanson are doing a Book Launch of our new books just
released from Five Rivers Publishing. These books are The Eye of Strife,
Hunter's Daughter, and King Kwong -- one fantasy, one mystery, and a
bio, for an eclectic mix.

Join us on Saturday June 27 at
3pm. We'll be in Victoria BC, at the Royal Canadian Legion's Britannia Branch at 780
Summit Avenue (corner of Summit and Nanaimo near Mayfair Mall). There's
good access by bus, and plenty of parking.

Come celebrate three books at once. No, five, and all from Five Rivers! In
addition to Dave's 50th novel The Eye of Strife, he will in June see the
release of the omnibus edition of his three novels of Ivor the Runner.
And the new edition of my novel Tower in the Crooked Wood will also be
released in June. All five of these books are from the Canadian publisher Five Rivers which is based in Neustadt, Ontario.

They were stolen in the dark to work for a night and a day, building a
tower for the wizard Krummholz on faraway Copper Island, in a place
where the trees grow twisted in a poisoned bog. Some of the unwilling
workers were returned bewildered, bruised and marked by whips — others
died as the uncaring wizard called new workers to his tower. Now Jenia
is the only one left of her family willing to leave her orchards and
walk five hundred miles in search of her abductor, and the answers to
questions burning inside her.
Why was she stolen out of the dark? What is wrong at the heart of the
tower? And why does the magic twisting the very trees strike a strangely
familiar note? All Jenia knows for sure is that she will not let
herself be made a prisoner again, not by magic nor by force of arms.
When a soldier tries to trap her in a lord's garden, and a village of
gentle people tell her to give up her hopeless quest, Jenia has to
choose where to place her trust: in friends, in strength, or in the
cunning in her own two hands.
And then the wizard Krummholz sends his call out again….

Review of Tower

A wealth of realistic detail lends authenticity to this engrossing tale
of a young arborist, “a scholar of trees.” Paula Johanson has created a
magical alternative world both mythic in feel, and hauntingly evocative
of our own.